"Eh?"
Leon, who always thought meetings were boring, was yawning, but he never closed his mouth. He looked at Ademir in surprise, but found that his expression was firm and not fake at all.
"I'm repairing it?"
Leon pointed at himself, "Is that true?"
No, I thought you were poor. Could you have afforded a Dreadnought?
I just repaired a chainsaw sword. Why did I suddenly have a big repair to do?
However, this matter did not surprise an outsider like Leon. As a last resort to preserve the lives of veterans who were about to irreversibly reach the end, those who could enter the Dreadnought undoubtedly had an important position in the entire regiment and even in the legion.
Although they have decided to cooperate with Leon, this is not enough. The Astartes in front of them treat him with wariness.
It was for this reason that when Ademir announced this decision, he was opposed by Lieutenant Dwayne and Sergeant Arlo. Even Adjutant Ajax, who had always supported him, was somewhat hesitant.
"No, absolutely not!"
Lieutenant Vega is a traditionalist: "Whether it is burying the Dreadnought in the sarcophagus or awakening the Dreadnought, it has always been the responsibility of the technmarines. The tech-priest sent from outside the Forge World are not qualified to participate in the maintenance of the Dreadnought, let alone such a guy with unknown origins?!"
Sergeant Arlo's focus is on practical effectiveness:
"Will it work? We have buried the captain in the sarcophagus for so long. When he was still alive, we performed the awakening ceremony every day but received no response. A foreign tech-priest, Ademir, do you trust him so much?"
"The fact is not about trust or not, like I said, this is the only chance."
Ademir lowered his body and looked around at everyone seriously.
"This is the only outsider we have seen since we were trapped on this planet for nearly a thousand years. If we want to escape this predicament, we should seize every opportunity."
"If we are now standing at the crossroads of fate and need to decide between unity, why don't we wake up our captain? If Brother Hank has worked so hard in the awakening ceremony for so long and has not received any response, why don't we try a new possibility?"
"What kind of magic potion did that priest give you to make you think he is a new possibility? Even if he is reliable, how can his awakening ceremony be different from Hank's?" Lieutenant Viga was a little angry
"He does not sing Mechanicum hymns while he works," Ademir replied.
The air suddenly fell silent, and Leon, who was watching their keywords such as "Company Commander" and "One Thousand Years", found that everyone's eyes were on him.
He coughed twice and felt that he had to clear his name: "I am a tech-priest who graduated from the second-level forging world Stygies VIII , and I have official certification."
Leon was a little embarrassed. Although Stygies VIII did not become the headquarters of the Mechanicus heretics until after the Horus Heresy, there were already some signs before the Heresy.
He concluded this first, then looked at Ademir: "But Ademir, have you thought it through? The opportunity you see to wake up the captain may also cause us to lose him completely. None of us can afford this loss."
"My resolve depends only on whether the tech-priest chooses to join, Brother Ajax," said Ademir. "If we dare not consider awakening him, then we have already lost him."
He took on the task of awakening the Dreadnought and, under the guidance of several people, went to the deepest part of the cave, where an ancient Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought was sleeping quietly.
The few power backpacks that are still functioning are stacked here. They pump the energy in the backpacks into the Dreadnought, thus barely maintaining the operation of the basic life support system in the Dreadnought.
Seeing this scene, Leon understood why none of these Astartes' power armors had power backpacks.
However, relying on a power backpack to maintain the Contemptor is not a long-term solution. When the last power is exhausted, this dreadnought that cannot be awakened will also come to an end of its life.
Considering that there are only a few working power packs left, it's no wonder that he was pulled in to wake up him just after repairing a chainsaw sword.
However, seeing that Leon could repair the chainsaw sword, it was not Ademir's fantasy to let Leon awaken the Dreadnought. In theory, awakening the Dreadnought only requires activating the awakening program while chanting the Mechanicus hymn that soothes the machine spirit.
If you can't wake up the Dreadnought, there's likely some mechanical malfunction in the Dreadnought's internal wake-up device, which is the same as repairing a chainsaw sword.
Although it sounds simple, considering that a technical sergeant has not been able to awaken this Dreadnought for so long, Leon did not underestimate it.
He first walked around the Contemptor Dreadnought and found that there were many portraits carved on it. They seemed to be narrating the legendary experience of the old soldier buried in the sarcophagus:
Leon smacked his lips, turned around, and asked, "Who drew these things?"
"Sergeant Hank." Ademir mentioned the techmarine's name again: "When he was studying on Mars, he lived in the same dormitory with the other techmarine of the Emperor's Children and learned a lot of relevant skills.
"I'm not asking that. I mean, why did he paint these things on the Dreadnought, just for commemoration?"
Ademir shook his head, but Adjutant Ajax took over the conversation: "He said at the time that the Dreadnought's machine spirit had become cunning and talkative. He felt that this was the reason why the Dreadnought could not be awakened, so he wanted to use this method to increase the Dreadnought's sacredness and transform the Dreadnought's machine spirit."
"But even he thought this idea was too fantastic. He only mentioned it to me during a casual chat and did not report it."
A giant xeno that is almost made of psychic energy and has blue bird feathers on its body, and a machine spirit that has become cunning and talkative...?
"No matter what happens later, don't be surprised, and don't do anything." Leon, who felt that he had grasped the key to the problem, specifically warned him. He pulled out a data cable from his body and directly connected it, He injected his code into it, and tried to explore the situation.
As expected, the wake-up program has become quite chaotic, with a mountain of junk code inside, and it is still growing rapidly.
Leon did some calculations and found that if the program ran through all the junk code and finally started, it would take about 9,000 years.
Leon was too lazy to bother with so much junk code, so he decided to go find the one who created it.
He symbolically deleted some of the junk code. Sure enough, the blue data stream, noting that the junk code he created had been deleted, rushed over directly. Even before the other party arrived, Leon had already received the other party's provocation in binary code:
"Hank, you can't save your captain! Just like your captain can't save your primarch! Your fate has already been... Hey? Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am to you. After all, you don't need to remember so many things when you are about to die."
Looking at the big demon with blue bird feathers in front of him, Leon showed a friendly smile: "But you, did you see your fate of being destroyed today?"